Onondaga — All season long, the Liverpool indoor track and field teams looked to catch Cicero-North Syracuse, and finally did so – at least for one day.

The Warriors claimed both the boys and girls team titles in last Saturday’s Fred Kirschenheiter Memorial Invitational at SRC Arena, needing 115 points to fend off the Northstars (106 points) in the boys event.

Ben Petrella had a big week. Honored as Gatorade New York Boys Cross Country Runner of the Year earlier in the week and given a spot in the “Faces in the Crowd” section of Sports Illustrated, Petrella had time to run here, too, and won the 3,200-meter run in nine minutes, 30.94 seconds, with teammate Ty Brownlow second in 9:51.19. Three C-NS runners – Andrew Bearkland (10:04.47), Nathan Poirier and Joe Tricarico – occupied the fourth through sixth spots.

In the mile, Steve Schulz went 4:36.91, part of another 1-2 Liverpool sweep with Ryan Comstock (4:42.06) ahead of the C-NS duo of Zach Wagner (4:47.54) and Brandon Martin (4:52.77). Terrell Coleman, in 2:35.38, routed the field in the 1,000-meter run, with Julio Roman third in 2:48.41, just behind the Northstars’ Sam Barber (2:47.12) for that runner-up spot.

That came before Brownlow, Coleman, Schulz and Collin Gwilt won the 4×800 relay in 8:30.66, with C-NS seeing Wagner, Barber, Bearkland and Poirier finish second in 8:51.22.

Yet another Warriors sweep came in the 300-meter dash, with Donald Frost, in 37.97 seconds, beating out Mike Mahan (38.13 seconds) for that top spot. Moving to the 4×200 relay, Frost and Mahan paired with Brandon Mayfield and Khalil Wales to go 1:36.60 and edge the Northstars’ team of Jeremiah Willis, Matt Williams, Ryan Massena and Matt Kilian (1:37.23) in the second sopt.

C-NS did its share of winning events, too, including two of them from Willis. In 6.77 seconds, Willis held off Mayfield (6.81 seconds) to claim the 55-meter dash, and then, in the long jump, Willis went 21 feet 5 ¾ inches, more than a foot ahead of the field.

continued — Tyler Mosher took second in the shot put of 46’ ½” behind Nottingham’s Jaleel Barry, who went 51’1 ¼”. George Reader was second in the high jump, clearing 5’10” with fewer misses than Kennedy in fourth place as Oswego’s Kyle Crossman won, clearing 6 feet.

Ed Mahana went 8.03 seconds for a victory in the 55-meter hurdles, and won again when he, along with Williams, Zach Kennedy and Allen Garnes, claimed the 4×400 relay in 3:33.64, more than 10 seconds ahead of the field as Liverpool settled for sixth place. Garnes was sixth in the 300.

Meanwhile, in the girls Kirschenheiter meet, an even closer battle played out. Liverpool had 97 points, and it was just enough as C-NS, with 92 points, had to again settle for the runner-up spot.

With every point important, Liverpool’s Juliana Basla pulled away in the 1,500-meter run, winning in 4:48.41 to beat out C-NS’s Annina Marullo, second in 5:06 flat, and Emily Dembowski (5:14.66) in third place as the Warriors’ Jillian Stagnitta was fourth in 5:23.90.

Basla didn’t stop there, either, also roaring to first place in the 600 in 1;42.61, beating C-NS’s Sarah Davis (1:45.77) in second place as Kristina Moore (1;50.35) was fourth, and then, paired with Stagnitta, Vanessa Eberhard and Morgan Chewning-Kulick, the Warriors won the 4×800 in 10:18.31, with Davis, Dembowski, Marullo and Haley Pestle putting C-NS (10:26.38) in third place.

Ebehard took second in the 3,000-meter run in 10:57.34, with Windsor Ardner (12:16.21) holding off two C-NS runners to finish sixth and gain another point.

C-NS got a win from Jilliann Norris, who claimed the 1,000 in 3:12.68 over Liverpool’s Morgan Chewning-Kulick, who was second in 3:13.19, less than a second behind as Mallory Woytowicz took fifth place in 3:24.47 to make up the point differential for the Warriors.

continued — Norris, paired with Lauren Witek, Marie LeRoy and Abbey Szumloz, won the 4×400 relay in 4:19.87, edging out Homer (4:20.96) as Liverpool’s quartet of Colleen Tifft, Amelia Johnson, Sarah Sedlock and Natalie Kurz was third in 4;36.07.

Strong again in field events, the Northstars went 1-2 in the shot put, Destiny Monica unleashing a throw of 33’6 ¼” to edge out Kierrah Butler (33’2 ½”) and prevail, As that went on, Shayla Webb won the long jump, going 16’5 ¾”

LeRoy also took fourth in the 300 in 44.62 seconds, with Sasha Pualski (44.62 seconds) fifth. Liverpool’s Tymaiah Harper was fifth in the 55 sprint and helped Kurz, Johnson and Erin Straub finish fifth (1:57.97) in the 4×200.

Kelly Townley gave Liverpool a second-place pole vault of 9’6”, with Central Square’s Bethany Cripps clearing 11’6” and Mackenzie Case (7’6”) fifth for the Warriors.

The Northstars’ Brittany House, in 9.17 seconds, edged Liverpool’s Alexis Bittel (9.18 seconds) for the runner-up spot in the 55 hurdles. Bittel added a third-place long jump of 15’6 ¼”, with Townley (14’9 ½”) in fifth place. Megan Milazzo cleared 4’10” for third place in the high jump, with C-NS’s Cassie Baldwin (4’8”) fifth.